Posted on 02/02/2022 9:49:22 PM PST by BenLurkin
” ‘No one who has invested a mere month of effort in researching his family tree would be surprised by the DNA test findings.’ -— For most people, yes. A small percentage, like me, would discover that 25% of his tree was wrong, due to rape.”
Non-paternity events (NPEs) include any event which has caused a break in the link between an hereditary surname and the Y-chromosome resulting in a son using a different surname from that of his biological father.
NPEs are very common, maybe one in every 5 to 25 births, depending on culture. NPEs include name changes, adoptions, rape, affairs, and sperm donors.
To discover the true paternal line, a male should take a Y-DNA test at Family Tree DNA.
Another intriguing immaculate Christmas birth.
It's true that ages are not always accurate on census records--it's whatever the person talking to the census taker thought was correct.
FamilyTreeDNA has the most precise Y-DNA haplogroups (different prices for different levels of precision) but that is in addition to the basic “autosomal” test. 23andMe has Y-DNA haplogroups as part of the basic test (obviously for men only)—not as specific but may be adequate to compare one man’s haplogroup with that of a known descendant of the putative father.
IF you read the entirety of my posts you will recognize the point I was trying to make.
She was born in 1906 in NE Florida in the middle of nowhere, her birth was not even recorded, there were no doctors to deliver babies back then where she was born a midwife was called, people had babies in their house, the nearest hospital was 40-50 miles away by horse and carriage.
There was no electricity, there were no cars there was nothing except for trying to gather enough food to feed your family.
Her experience was not unique, a large percentage of Americans back then live in rural area and were basic farmers.
The point I was trying to make is for a lot of Americans those things did not exist in 1906.
Heck My Mother grew up in Jacksonville, Fl, a city, she was born in 1930 and the first TV station didn’t come to Jacksonville until 1949 and most people couldn’t afford a TV, even if you had a TV it only got 1 channel.
four adopted children.
All successful but definitely their birthparent’s children, with little influence from me. I guess my influence is their success.
I don’t know why this so difficult I was responding back and forth with a couple of other people in general terms and you want to make it about specifics
The TV comments are another example of things we take for granted that weren’t available all that many years ago
It wasn’t until the rural electrification act of 1936 that a lot of areas began to get electricity
The entire point is how people not that long ago made do n life without many things we take for granted today
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